Noob question

Chieve

I'm thinking about doing the certificate quests and start doing dailies. Do they provide the materials to make any items? Do I get back any items I made? Do I get skill points that I can put towards my crafting spells? Will it level my crafting ability fully or only?

Totalitarian

You have to provide your own materials for the items.

You do not get back the items you made.

You do not directly get skill points.

It will level a bit of your choice of craft.

BUT! By finishing the crafting quest you get:
1. Gold
2. Experience (so you can get skill points by leveling up)
3. Rewards in the form of crafting materials and a reward box (open it up)
4. Inspiration, which is experience for your craft.

I personally would recommend you do them.

Antubis

The higher level of Writ you do, the higher the reward, which can often times be purple crafting supplies.

Each level of Writ is tied to a specific zone and has to be turned in to the respective zone, so don't level to high if you can't get to the appropriate zone to turn in.

elephunky

I like doing the crafting writs. I am a big fun of crafting in this game and the rewards are worth the effort IMO.

Nestor

Chieve wrote: »

I'm thinking about doing the certificate quests and start doing dailies. Do they provide the materials to make any items? Do I get back any items I made? Do I get skill points that I can put towards my crafting spells? Will it level my crafting ability fully or only?

Equipment Crafting Writs are hit or miss. At lower levels, you can make several writs worth from a stack of mats, at higher levels it can take a 100 refined mats to fulfill a writ. So, your payback will vary here depending on the level of the writ.

As for Consumables Writs, you always get back more than what you put into them so they are a net gain in materials.

You won't really level a characters crafting in the sense of just doing writs to craft. I mean you will level it eventually, but you will level it faster deconstructing and extracting items (Equipment and Enchanting) and making things (Consumables including Enchanting). But, you will get some gains on the leveling doing the writs.

But, your really doing them for the reward containers and what you get in there. Oh, and the Gold too. I have a VR character doing L1 Writs (mats are cheap) and she gets 4000 plus gold a day in 5 minutes doing the writs, on top of all the mats and ingredients I get back.

Lokustreign

Nestor wrote: »

Chieve wrote: »

I'm thinking about doing the certificate quests and start doing dailies. Do they provide the materials to make any items? Do I get back any items I made? Do I get skill points that I can put towards my crafting spells? Will it level my crafting ability fully or only?

Equipment Crafting Writs are hit or miss. At lower levels, you can make several writs worth from a stack of mats, at higher levels it can take a 100 refined mats to fulfill a writ. So, your payback will vary here depending on the level of the writ.

As for Consumables Writs, you always get back more than what you put into them so they are a net gain in materials.

You won't really level a characters crafting in the sense of just doing writs to craft. I mean you will level it eventually, but you will level it faster deconstructing and extracting items (Equipment and Enchanting) and making things (Consumables including Enchanting). But, you will get some gains on the leveling doing the writs.

But, your really doing them for the reward containers and what you get in there. Oh, and the Gold too. I have a VR character doing L1 Writs (mats are cheap) and she gets 4000 plus gold a day in 5 minutes doing the writs, on top of all the mats and ingredients I get back.

Preach.

Higher level writs for blacksmithing, woodworking, and clothing have the chance to yield some high-level improvement materials, but more often than not you end up wasting half a stack of mats for a stupid survey map that doesn't even come close to replacing the materials you spent on the completing the writ. This is a common gripe from ESO players. It has been for a long time. Stick to provisioning, alchemy, and enchanting writs at higher levels. They take no time to finish and you get awesome rewards compared to the amount of effort you put into completing them.

For the purpose of leveling your crafting professions, daily writs are obviously helpful because of the Inspiration points you get as well as the money from completion, but deconstructing will always be your main source of leveling blacksmithing, woodworking, clothing, and enchanting.

robeauch

I wouldn't put enchanting in with the "don't bother" list (blacksmithing, clothing, woodworking). Enchanting writs are definitely the way to go if you want to level. What you get back is worth more in IXP than the runes you have to spend on it. And your material cost is a wash in the long run.

What you put in is:
4 runes (three to craft the required glyph, plus one additional).

What you get back:
A decent amount of IXP from the quest
A green glyph, which you can deconstruct for additional IXP
Zero to three runes from deconstructing that reward glyph
About 20% of the time, a map to a location with a dozen bonus runes (4 of each type)
And, money.

Is it worth the loss of 4 runes? On average, yes.

Let's say you do the daily five times and get the reward map only once (fairly typical). You also got 7 or 8 runes back from deconning 5 green reward glyphs. Your loss in runes is negligible -- spend 20, get back 19 or 20. Your return will vary because of the RNG, but in the long run you will about break even on runes. You'll also have gained some easy money and, of course, IXP.

So yeah, if you're trying to level enchanting, definitely make the daily writ part of the plan.